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Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1859-12-20

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i C , . 4".t -, 7 i 3 Z; 1 o VOLUME XXIIL MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1859. NUMBER 35. sW4w' ; . - if - Ji?5 lienor Detoocrtflc Qm$t lt UBI.tBCB aVBar TCSBWAT oaXIHQ, DY JL. IIARPCR. iQSce in T7oAdvAd't Block, TMrd Story TERMS T dollars pr annum, payabla in advance; $2,50 within fix months; $3.00 after the ex-jpiratloc of the year. Club f twenty, $1,50 each. iainai " Written for the Banner The Nun. ; bt "la dbsvise." One nesting year and then, The mystic towi will seal, Jfy future from this outer world, . My Tery life coneeaL One fleeting yenr and thon. The able veil will fall, In dark folds from iny puling brow, To 0otne m eoi&bre pall, Cut to my eart its ibade will be, , A refuge from the jflnre, Of all that's cold, vnkind or faUt, In this dark world of care. tn fleeting year and then ; My Father' heart will bleed, )hl Heaven help me! in tat kur, lly ioul will foel thy need. One fleeting year andlhen, Oh ! Mother, pardon tne ; Chide not my vote, fur this alone, The future hold for me. . Dear Brothers, Sisters, well 1 know, --There will-be sobs and tears, 'Within the tiexr old homestead So blet thro' passing years. One fleeting year itnd then. The lonely clois-ter's cell, Will b my home, and to the tourltt . My heart will breath fnrewell " " Think not, Mmti worlJ, f "seek iu shade O'er sorrows dark to brood, My weary spirit only aeks for jeuee and solitude. One fleeting year and then the prtit With all its hopes aud fears, Must from ' the lister's " spitit pass. Erased by prayers tears. Oh ! cherished friends, thro coming years, . My heart at liuies may swell. When to thy sihe, thy prayers aud tears, I breath u tuny fmeictU. For the 'It. Vernon Banner. A Heart Wail. BT MOLLIS A. I'lSKKRTOM. " I've wept till all my store Of tears is spent, and I can weep no more." I fain would weep! my aching heart, Swells high with anxious grief and fear; But when I claim kind Nature's boon, Stem pride forbids the starting tear. The chilliug blast of ad verse .fate,' Bio bleakly, o'er my storm-tostd soul ;-And Slander's poisoued dart is there, Iirctod by a I'it-nd't control. J cannot weep; the fount 5? cl'ised. Of Grief ' ywoet o!a o to the heart ; And never, from uiy burning eyes, " Vill gushing drops of sorrow siart. Tears are fur those who never knew, . The sidueuirg we'ght f-f care I feci. Deep are the wouids Life's battle gives ; . Aud slow the power of Tiuae to heal. Forever now from me has pnss'd, The time to quail at want and woe, : W here vet De tiny directs. In lty's path I'll Ermly go. No more shall Pleasure's phantom mock, Or Ease allure me to her bower ; " I'll brave their arts, as does the rock The torrent's fiercest, jnadest power. Oh! may I not when Life's dim sun, . Hns sunk benenth Ubiiviuti'ri en, . Best in a dreamless sleep at Wt, From cank'ring care Jorever tree : . ; If so. fast speed ye weary years, '- And haste to bring you r welciuecloie, "When I can lay niy aching head, In. Death's eteruai. soft repose. . JiLi.owaY, Nov. 26, lj9.. lictrks of $cn. Stephen Girard. Stephen Girard began l.-.i rttinarkable trading career with one object which he at cadUy kept in view ail his luriaf .lite thf ruaii..j moucj for the power it eoDfrrred. He as cofjteot at starting, with the small profits of. the retail -trader, wilrihg to labor in any capacity to njiike these .profits secure. He practised the most . risr-Id personnVecon-- omy; he resisted all the alhirementa of pleasure;! be extracted th) last fart hitig. due to h m; and 1 he paid the last farthing that be owed He took j e Very advantage which tb-4aw allowed him in resisting a claim; he used men just so far as they j accomplished his purpose; he paid his servants no'more than the market price; wbeu a faithful cashier died he exhibited the utmost indifference making no provision for his family, and uttering no sentiment of regret lor bis loss. He would higgle for a penny with a huckster in thestreeU; be would deny tbe watchman at tbe bank the customary Christmas present of a great coat. To add more to his singular and deficient character, he was deaf in one ear, could only speak fcroken English, never converged upon anything but business, wore the same old coat, cut in the French style, for five years together. An old rickerty chair remarkable for its age, and marked with the initials "S, G,n drawn by ajadtd horse, was used when he rode around the city. He had no sense of hospitality; no friend to share bis house or table. He l was deferential, in appearance, to rank land family. Violent and passionate. His theological opiuions were heterodox ia the extreme, and he loved to name his , splendid vessels after Voltaire and Bossean. He was ottttwj to the improvensent of hisidopted city and ottntry; vu a determined follower of ostentatious charity, msn ever applied to htm for Urge public grant in vain, whils the starving beggar was ia variably seat .fca bi He steadily arose every fnornlag before tb lark as j nnceftsiog labor was the dftUj worship of his life." -:- - - : : V- , : ., : : . Aarcn Unrr.-Sentinel,, correspondent of the Conner ftnd Enquirer, thus sketches ia outline tbe character cf Barf: . J - r -; i ". : , v; ;.;, . .-.".v . ' Net jet Is Aaron Burr lbs subject tot fiction. T7e are too Bear him. Ilea who saw his exact tsr era severe critics of ao ideal portrait J r:-ci!3 t esCsssaa to ce, ij is I :zTf, posiext clsea of ccr tralse-'zx elr, i irtj Ja irtt9 nlxca - JmS with him for leren yeara he vuinu without ft conscience, and laughing ftt tta profesMd existence in other men. When they talked of the restraints of principal, he scorned their professions, and believed its assumption a cloak for vil. Courageous to the death, he dared to go on whatever stood before him. Prodigal upon his own profligacy, mean to all other expenditure, winning the name and fame of ft great lawyer, while he did bat dexterously avail himself of (he labors of others, he-thrnst men aside without pausing to reflect upon the pain of the blow. He went through life, as a cold conquer or goes over the field of battle, his road over the wounded, if success seemed easiest won by such ft path. .' Burr was not of a Republic His acting in the drama of life would have been in the first cast of character, in those lauds and under those Goverments where be could have governor. Not for him was the cold, calm superiority which Washington in his dignity exercised. He would have found, in an Oriental coontrj, sure way to efface such an obstacle to power; in the days of the old French Monarchs, his would have been the smite that reflected the King's favor, and his the frown that apprised the courtier that he had fallen. Our plain, straight line ways were not the arena for him. Colonel Burr would have been the fiist man that Cromwell hung, the first man to whom Charles H. would liave opened, the door of the inner room. Burr belonged to the times when the question asked by the nobles (the people asked no questions) was who whispers, and the Kiiier speaks. pasing t)nrictij. THE GOSPEL. . The circulation of the Gospel is a stream of light put iu" motion by the Eternal God, which, is destined to go onward till all darkotga is swept awav. PRAYER. An old author says: 'Prayer is that rope in the be'lfri w pull it, and it rings the bell up in Hcaveis; and s it is. K-ep tht bell moving. Pull it well, and though the bell is ur so high thut tou cannot har it ritig, depend upon it, it cm be heard iu the tower of Heaven, and is ringing before the throne of God, who will send answers of peace according to your faith." ' PEACE. - Peace is better thau joy. Joy is an uneasy guest, and always on tiptoe to depart. It tires aud wears ns out, and yet keeps us ever fearing that the next moment will be gone. Peace is not so it comes more quietly, it stays more contentedly, and it never exhausts our strength, nor gives us one anxious thought. Therefore, let ue pray for peace. It is the gift of God promised to all His children; and if we have it in our hearts we shall not pine for joy, though its bright wings never touch U3 while we tarry in the world. TRUTH NEVER DLT3. Great principles are immortal. Emanating from the Divine mind, their existence is eternal. You may' entomb them under the superstition of ago; you may bury them, but they will rise again' Their supremacy must be recognised. Thtir empire must be eternal. Our fathers felt this. In-'th- prison, and at the stake, it ahsorb-ed tlcm. With the spirit of -Christian martyrdom they threw their erfat principles into the public mind. S.K-iety was titarllrd at their boldness and uovelty. The intelligetice aud piety of the ag for the season repudiattd them asd-s-tructive to all order aid morality. Still tbey worked. . - ;. ":- '- THE TWO LIVES. "Beautiful i old age - beautiful ia the slow-dropping, mellow sutumii of a, rich and glorious summer. In the old man; Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with the fruits of a well spent life; and, surrounded by his children's chil- i dren, she rocks hint aufily away to a grave. to which be is followed with blessings. "God forbid that we thould not call it beauti fu'; but not the most beautiful. . There is anoth. er life, bard, rough, and taoroey, trodden with, I bleediug' feet and aching b.o; the life of which h cross :s the symbol; a battle which no peace fjllows this side of the rrave. which thn orravt o -.7 w r. - - gazes to finish before the victory is won; and strange that it should be so, th is is the highest life of man. Look along the great names of history: there are none whose life has been other than this." BEAUTIFUL. Why is it that the rainbow and the cloud come over us with a beauty that is not of earth, and then pass away, and leave us to muse oq faded lov-Hie? Why is it that the stars that hold their nightly throne aro placed above the reach of our limited facultips. forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory? And why is u that the bright forms of human beauty presented W our view are then taken from ns, leaving the thousand stivams of affection to flow back in almighty torrents upon the human? We are born of a large. 4ftiaj than that of aarth. There is a land where the stars will be set oat before as like islands that slumber in the ocean, and where the beautiful being that pass before bs like n meteor will stay ia ear preseece fareret JVov THB lflSJ IS A JtTJSICLUf. V ; Extend a silken thread ia the crevice of a window and the wind finds it and sings over it, and foes p end dowa the scale upon it, and, like Paganini, performs oa a singls string. riae ftlseost "wveirthing oa earth to see if mere is masie U iu: It persaadea a tone out of tne greftt btu the tower wbea the sexton is sleep, U make. , meurafBl Jrj of the forest piaee, and h tries to see what sort of a whistle can be made of the bemUest ehionej ia tie world. , How it will pl,y Bpon a great tres tin erery leaf &rO wiUt tie aote ia it, and winds t ttsxi cf rsoracrlc aeeejepaaiaaEt, ' " X TTltl oCoij i tlat vita It girte a eea. cert with full choir of the waves of the sea, tad performs an anthem between the two worlds, and goes op, perhaps to the stars that lor music most and aang it the first. : ; Then how fondly it haunts old booses, moaning under the eaves, singing in the halls, opening old doors without fingers, and sighing a measure of some sad old song around the fire-less and descted hearth. UXIOX DEMONSTRATION IX BOSTON. SPEECH OF EDWAEB EVEEETT. Letter ft-om Ex-Presldent Pierce. The great Union meeting in Fanenil Hall, ia Boston, on Thursday, was the most imposing political demonstration ever witnessed in that city, and. as was the case here, was largely com posed of men representing all departments of industry. The opening address was delivered by the Ptesi dent, ex Governor Lincoln, and after the reading of a series of well expressed resolutions, the Hon. Edward Everett was introduced and delivered an address of remarkable force and eloquence. We have space only to extract his pictnre of the horrors of iusurrection, in connection with the recent mad foray. He said: Mr. Chairman, those who look upon the existing excitement at the South as factitious or extravagant, have, I fear, formed a very inadequate idea of the nature of such ao attempt as that which was made at Harper's Ferry was intended to be, and would have been, had it proved successful. Itis to want of reflection on this point i hat we must ascribe the fact that any civilized man, iu his right mind, and still mpre any man of intelligence and moral disernmenl in other respects, caa be found to approve and sympathise with it. I am sure, if such persons will brinir home to their mind3, in any dist'mct conception, the real nature of the undertaking, they would be themselves amazed. that they had ever given it their sympathy. It appears, from his own statements and those of his deluded associates, of bis biographer, of his wretched wife, that the unhappy man, who has just paid the forfeit of his life, had for years meditated a general insurrection in the Southern Slates; that he thought the time had now come to. effect it; that the slaves were reauy to rise, ana tne non-siavenoio.ng wn.tes to - join them;nd both united were ready to' form a new Commonwealth, of which the Constitution was organized, and the officers chosen. With this wild but thoroughly matured plan, he provides weapons for those on whosa rising he cal eultUed at Harper's Ferry; be seizes the national arsenal, where there was a supply of arms for a hundred thousand men, and be intended, if unable to maintain himself at once in open country, to retreat to the mountains, and from their fasten esses, harass, paralyse, and finally revolutionize the South. To talk of the pikes and rifles not being iu tended for offensive purposes is ei-m ply absurd. The first act almost of the party was to shoot down a free colored nan, whom they ere attempting to impress, and who fled from them. - One night as well say that the rifled ordnance of Louis Napoleon was intended only for self defence, to be used in case the Austrians should undertake to arrest his march. No. Sir; it was an at tempt to do otj a vast scale, what was done in St. Domingo in 1791, where the colored population was about equal to that of Virginia; and if any one would form a di&tiuct idea what such an operation is, Jet him see it-rot as a matter of vague : conpeptiona crud pr j"ct in the mind of a heated fanatic, but as be Khoyld in the sober pages of history, that rec" ords the revolt in that island; the midnight burnings, the wholesale massacres, the merciless tor ture, the ahom;ryaUons not to be named by Christian tips in the hearing of Christian earssome of which, ico unutterably atrocious for the Eng- j -lish lanung-e, areof necessity veiled in the; ob- j scuTity of tbe Latin tongue. Allow me to read you a few sentences from the historian of these events: '---rv. "In the town itself, the general belief for some time was,. that the revolt was by no means an extensive one, but a sudden and partial insurrection only. The largest sugar plantation on the plain wasuhat of Moris. Gallifet, situated about eight miles from the town, the negroes belonging to which bad always been treated with such kindness and liberality, and possessed so many advantages, that it become a proverbial expression among the lower white people, in speaking of any man s good fortune, to say, tl est heureitx comvie ; hasty or narrow view of the causes which have un negre de Gallifet (be is as hapyy as one of produced the dangers we w,nld meet, and jf pos-M. Gallifri's negroes.) M. Odelac, an attorney, f, Me avert. It is not the recent invasion of Vir or ajent, for this planUtion. was a member of i ginia which should awaken our atronirest aDnre- the General Assembly, and being fully persuaded that the negroes belonging to it would remain firm in their obedience, determined to repair thither to encourage tbem in opposing the insurgents; tn which end he desired the assistance of a few soldier from the town guard, which was granted bi m We proceeded accordingly, but on approaching the estate, to bis surprise, be found all the negroes in arms on the side of the rebels, and, horrid to telL their standard teas the body of a vyhite infant tchick they lad recently impah ed on a stake! Mr. Odeluc had advanced too far to retreat undiscovered, and both he and a friend who bad accompanied Lira with most of tbe soldiers, were killed without mercy. Two or three only of tbe patrol escaped by flight, and conveyed tbe dreadful tidings to tbe inbemtenit of the town. - - .r:.. , , Bj this time, all or most of the Ybtte parsons who bad been found on the asveral plantations being masacred or forced to seek their safety in flight, tbe rufSans exchanged the sword for the torch. Tbe buildings and cane-fields were everywhere set on fire; and the J conflagrations, which were visible front the town, in a thousand diSTer eat quarters, famiihed a prospect more shocking a&d refectlaasmcre dismal, tbaa &&cj caa p sisl ci tie powers aa' icsetilW? :if--.-y-Caciy Cr, as a r;a.:i.-.r cf L-i."jU t: rTj ificrrcssa. Vsw let tl Ul : ' state of things ic the Southern States,o-members as the are with na in the rreat Republican Confederacy. Let us consider over what sort of population it is, that some persons ftmong ns think it only right and commendable, bat in the highest degree heroic, saint like, god -like, to ez tend the awful calamity, which turned St. Domingo into ft heap of bloody ashee in 1791. There are between three and fonr millions of the colored race scattered through the Southern and Southwestern Stales, in small group, i cities, towns, villages, and in larger bodies on isolated plantations; in the house, the factory, anxl the field; mingled together with the dominent race in the various pursuits of life; the latter amounting in the aggregate to eightor nine millions, if I right ly recollect the numbers. Upon this community, thus composed, it was the design of Brown to let loose the hell-hod nds of a servile insnrrection, and to bring on a straggle wVich for magnitode, atrocity and horror would have stood alone in the history of the world. And these eight or nine millions, against whom this frightful war was levied are our fellow-citizens, entitled with us to the protection of that compact of Government which recognizes their relation to the colored race a compact which every sworn officer of the Union or of the States is "bound by his oath to support! Among them, sir, is a fair proportion of men and women of education and culture of moral and religious lives aud characters virtuous fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, persons who would adorn aay station of society in any country men who read the same Bibir that we do, and in the name of the same Master kneel at the throne of the same God forming a clss of men from which have gone forth some of the greatest and purest characters which adorn our history Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Marshall. These are the men, the women, for whos6 bosoms pikps and rifles are manufactured in New England, to be placed in the hands of an ignorant subject race, .supposed, most wrongfully, as recent events have shown, to be waiting only for an opfJortanity to use them! Sir, I have on three or fouivdifferent occasions in early life, and more, .reofly, visited all the Southvn, and South westerntates, with the exception of Arkansas aud Alabama. I have enjoyed tbe hospitality of the tity and the country; I Lave bad the privilege before crowded and favoring audiences, to hold op the character of the Father of his Country, and to in calculate the i blessings of the Union, in th game precise terms in which r have done u hereathome. and in the other por.i0ns of the land. I have been admit- ted to the confidence of the domestic circle, and I have seen there toucbi ng 'manifestations of the kindest feelings by which that circle, in all its members, high and low, matter and servant, can be hound together; and when I contemplate the horrors tui wuuiq Have ensued ad the tragedy on which the curtain rose at Harper's Ferry .been acted out through all its scenes of fire aud sword, of lust and murder, of rapine and desolation, to the final catastrophe, I am filled with emotions to which no words can do justice. There could of course he but one result, and that well deserving the thoughtful meditation of those, if any such there be, who think that the welfare of the colored race could by any possibility be promoted by the success of such a movement, and who are willing to purchase that result by so costly a sacrifice. The colored population! of St, Domingo amounted to but little short of a half a mil Hon, while the whites amounted to only 30,000. The white population of the Southern States a-lone, in the aggregate, outnumbers the colored racen the ratio of seven to one, and if (which heaven avert) tbey should be brought into con flict, it would end only in the extermination of the latter after senes of woe for which language is too faint; and for which ths liveliest fancy has no adequate images or horror. " Hon. Caleb Cusbing followed in an able and patriotic address, severely reprobating the false teaching which led first to the recent violation of the soil of a sister State, and secondly to tbe political sympathy with which it is sought to crown the felon. Among the letters read was one from Ex-Presu dent Pierce, dated at Concord, from which we make the subjoined truthful and forcible extracts: ; Yon are right in assuming that this is no time for hesitancy ; eo time f.r donbtiDg, halting, half-way professions, or indeed, for mere professions cf any kind. It is a time for resolute purpose, to be followed by decisive, consistent action. . ;, ; ' ' m ; '" -. --- -- Let us act calmly and deliberately, without passion and without acrimony. Let us take no hension. but the teachings, still vehemently ps-r- Risted in, from which it sprung; with, the inevitable necessity which evolves the tfft-ct from tie cause.;' So, again, it is to b remembered that those who boldly approve and applaud the acta of trea son and murder perpetrated within the limits of Virginia, are not the most dangerous enemies of the Constitution and the Union. Subtle, crafty men, who, passing by duties and obligations, habitually appeal to sectional prejudices and pas sions, by denouncing the Institutions and people of tbe Sooth, and thus inflame the Northern mind to the -pitch of .resistance to the clear pro visions of the fundamental law who, ander plansible -pretexts, addressed to those prejudices and passions, pesa local laws designed to evade Constitutional obligations, are real!; and truly, whether they believe it or not, tbe mea who are berrying as epoe swift destreetioa. j Tour reprobation ojttis r.LTsal and political teachings wbicb Inspire tiis line of condnct wd, I am sure, be pronounced la tones so earnest that no eaaa eaa tntst;, a tieV Import. Tee will abow, on jour p- r ; !I-ess to give to fellow "citizens of ptber L a t zch just legislation by CosgTess as ai jrzrlZ f tie pesitiaect, net oalj ct m- h-izlza, Izt tzx tie t jpcA cf . . ZLZzzs, tz.Z tli a Lit rex zzsjtZ. . .IV :a trcrs, csscUrrrr enactments, each State against violence from any other. I shall hope that jaer meeting wi3 awaken a spirit wbicb will lead ; Massachasetts and Virginia to grasp again reciprocally the band of affectionate sympathy and support of love, honor as thej did it 1776,' when, as the elder and more! powerful of the colonies, they made op the issue of blood against the power of an unjust Parliament. Why should it not be so? Is there any cause of alienation, on our part, which bid not exist at the formation of the Gov. ernment ? When have the people of the South invaded oar territory, slain our people, or conveyed away our property ? Why should not the authority of New Hampshire honor and cherish the authority of Uisshuippi? Are tbey not each sovereign, but yet are they hot bound up together in the endearing bond of a common country? To establish upon a firm footing these relations between all the States, what is required but cordial, loyal, manly recognition and enforcement, in spirit and in act, of all the requirements of the compact entered into by the fathers who have passed to their reward?; Caa it be that there is, among any large portion of our people, North or South, a settled purpose to accept the benefits, but deny the hardens of the Constitution? Have all sentiments of patriotism and honor perished together. If that time has come or you discern its near approach, then, indeed, should you, who desire to Jive under this Constitution, expounded by the angsst tribunal into whose charge our fathers gave its exposition, raise the voice of warning, and save, if it be impossible the voice of woe. But it has not come, and it is still in your power to say it shall not. There is no inevitable, irresistible impulse hurrying it forward. : 1 deny, in the name of all that is most sacred and precious in our inheritance, that there is an element of " irrepressible conflict" between the Southern and Northern members of this Con. fedration. The doctrine is as unsound and untrue as it . is fearful. It is contradicted by the unbroken experience of the first fifty years of our History. It would nave been tbe price of tbe lost of reputation , for life, to have uttered it while the men who fought tbe battles of the Revolution, and framed the Constitution, were yet alive. No t It has not come, and with the blessing of God, upon the exertions of good and patriotic men, it will never be nearer. I have faith in tbe power of yoar efforts, my fellow-citize' s faith that your example, in this relation, will be followed, and your action imitated, not only in other parts of Massachusetts, but by citizens of other States, who appreciate the blessings which the Constitution has conferred upon them, and who. come what may, intend, on their native soil. andwith their children around them, to claim its protection and uphold its-authority. 1 have faith, above all. that the continued favor of the God of our fathers, who watched over our feeble political beginnings, who preserved us through the innumerable perils of the struggle Tor nationality, will yet make the warmth of man subservient to the peace and durability of this. Union. HELPER AND HI S F RIEND S THEI R REVOLUTIONARY PLATFORU. (From the Washington Constitution. Mr. Helper, alias Heifer, a native of North Carolina, who, some years ago, left his State for his States' good, published a book i a which he expressed the following sen timents; 'Xo man can be a true patriot williovt first becoming an abolitionist." ' Henceforth, sirs, We are demandants, not suppliants. We demand , our rights nothing more, nothi ng less. Itis for you to decide whether vt are fo have justice peaceably or by no, lkxce; for, whatever consequences may foUow-tre are determined to have it one way or t7u oik-er." . ' ; r .:- -- - " The diabolical institution (slavery) subsists on its own flesh. At one time children are sold to procure food for the parents ; at another, parents are sold to procure food for the children. Within its pestilential atmosphere nothing succeeds ; progress and prosperity are unknown ; inanition and slothfulness ensue ; everything becomes dull and unprofitable; wretchedness and desolation stand or lie in bold relief throughout the land ; an aspecfof most melancholy inactivity and dilapidation broods over every , city and town ; ignorance and prejudice sit enthroned Tver the minds of the people ; usurping despots wield the sceptre of power; everywhere, and in everything, between Delaware Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, are the multitudinous evils of slavery apparent," - ": ; Inscribed on the banner which we herewith unfurl to the world, with the full and fixed deter mination to stand by it or die by it, unless one of more virtuous efficacy shall. be presented, are the mottoes which, in substance, embody tbe princip!es,s we conceive, that should govern us in our patriotic wat fare against the moat subtle and insidious foe that ever menanced the inalienable rights and liberties and dearest interests of America" 1. Thorough . organization and independent political action on the part of thenon-slave-holding wbites of tbe Sooth. . 2. IaelFgibiliiy of pro slavery slaveholders ; never another vote to any one who ad vocates the retention and perpetuation of human slavery. 3. No co-operation with pro-slavery politi cians; bo fellowship with them in religion; no aSliatioa with them ia society. 4. No- patronage to pro-slavery merchants ; no guesUhip in slave-waiting hotels ; ao fees to pro-slavery lawyers; no employment of pro-slavery physicians ; no audience to pro-slavery persona. ' :- . ...' -.. 5. No more hiring of slaves by nontlave boldera. " ' " . - C Abrupt diseootinuanoe of snbscriptioa to pro-slavery newspapers." - This book containiBg the above extracts, re-ctjmmending treason and insurrection, tbe abolition by violence of aa institution wbicb fifteen sovereign States of tbe Unioa approve and maintain, ctder tie express sanction and guarantees of the -.Constitution' "and tie exconncalcstloa of all who opioid tiat jnsjltclioa and ilsix exclusion from soeiaL rslliocs, and irtlsext fJ-Iiwii:;, -lu Cyt! tzl t-'tl2SSj t- drrssd, acj aii3 J tiossanl ec;!ss cf It tl.-. c.lzllj Ci '..Inlsief tit Uicrrr JloMcal. party, including sixty eight members of Congress, whose names we append i . , f. .. ScHtmxa Coltxx, Axaox Btraxixaaxx, Owen Lovejoy, Amos P. Granger,-Edwin B. Morgan,-Qavvibx A. Geow, Joshua R. Gid dings, Edward Wade," Calvin CChaSee, WmuH. Celsey, Wm. A. Howard, Henry Waldoa, JOHN SHERMAN, George W. Goocb, Henry L. Dawes, Justin S. Morrill, L Waahbume, Jrn J. A. Bingham, " Wm. Kellogg, E. R. Washburn, Samuel G. Andrews, Abraham B. Olin, Sidney Dean, : Nathl B,Darfee, Emory B. Pottle, DeWittC. Leech, John F. Potter, T. Davis, Mass-, J. F. Farns worth, C. L. Unapp, R. E. Featon, Philemon Bliss, ' ILtsox W, TxrrAX, r Charles Case, . T. Davie, Iowa, James Pike, Homer E. Royce, Isaac D. Clawson, A. S. Murray, Rob'tB. Hall, Val. B. Horton, . David Kilgore, Wm. Stewart, Samuel R. Curtis, John M. Wood, John M. Parker, Stephen C. Foster, Jas. Bofflaton, O. B. Mattison, Richard MoU, Geo. R. Robbins, E. f. Walton, James Wilson, S. A. Purviance, F. E. Spinner, . S. M. Burroughs. These men " cordially endorse" Helper's recommendations of treason, insurrection, and overthrow of the Constitution and .the Union, and now invite representatives of Southern constituencies to unite with them in political action, and aid in elevating to place and power. Can Southern men sustain and support such men and such measures ? We do not, we cannot, be lieve it ZIore of the Forbes Correspondence. New Yorx, Jan. 30, 1858. To the Committee of the British and Fortign Anti-Slavery Society, London: Gektlcscen Though the wrong complained of was not committed by our society, and although the subject be not, according to article 3, of a strictly "pacific character," nevertheless, as the circumstances detailed affect the interests of the anti-slavery cause, and as an English family has been barbarously and ; unjustly trea ted, I beg of you to pay attention to the follow ing facts: About the 25th of March last (1857) Capt John Brown, of Kansas, (known as Ossawato- mie Brown, from a fight between his men and the border ruffians near that village.applied to me to go to Iowa (or elsewhere) for a year, lo organize and instruct the military science some hundred more or less volunteers to be selec ted from the most reliable of the free State men who are very ignorant of military matters, of that after their being introduced they might , in Case of any emergency, be able to resist ago gression, and might be capable of directing oth ers in the proper ways of defending themselves. Capt. B. is not a military man by profession, but is a volunteer leader of irregulars an earnest and zealous man who had seen and felt what was needed in Kansas. He explained to me that the project, met with the approval and would receive the co-operation of the National Committee, tie Massachusetts State Committee acd other free State organizations, besides many eminent public officers and wealthy and influen tial citizens, by whom the amount of funds re quisite to carry out the plan would be placed in his hands. Capt. B. was on that occasion introduced to me by a letter which he brought from your cor respondent, Mr. Leavett. The invitation took me somewhat by surprise. I answered that the project appeared to be (so far as it went) a very proper proceeding, but that I did not feet much inclined to go among persons whose aspirations were limited to "Kansas for free white people," (the famous Topeka liberal constitution excludes from the .Territory all colored persons, free or slave;) but having been assured that the men in question bad more enlarged ideas, I then considered that I ought to go, provided the financial part of the question conld be so arranged as to enable me to send to my family ia Europe a regular and sufficient remittance of funds. During the month of May last I met Capt. B. by appointment, at Peterboro', New York State, and learning from him that be could not be ia Iowa so early as he had anticipated, I took advantage of the extra time to print a small volume of 'extracts" from my "Volunteer's Man-uel." " : Having reached Teber, i Iowa (the place designated as the most suitable for the proposed instruction,) on the second dsy after Capt. B. arrived there, I received from him sixty dollars for my traveling expenses (which sixty I seat home,) but be could give me no more. It is hardly necessary to. say that as there were no funds, there were no pupils et Taber, except Captain B., and bis son Owen. I did nc however, limit myself merely to impart military instruction, I wrote tracts (a specimen is enclosed) and did other things, and was ready to do an jibing which could be of use. Losing si length both confidence and patience, I wrote to Mr. Gerrit Smith (the end of August I believe,) requesting him to apply to the proper quarter and insist that something be speedily sent to lira. Forbes and tbe fire children ia Paris. Mr. Smitn forwarded to Mr. Sanborn, of Concord, my letter, and be (Mr. Smith)' enclosed a draft of bis own for $25) urging upon the Bostonians to add more to it and send it on directly. But after sometime If r. Sanborn returned the draft, sayiag, "Hard tiajea." Capt B. wrote a note to request Mr. Smit to adrance i2 on bis own (Capt. B,'s) aesoaat but Mr. 8. kaadly sent that earn frees bimael& - Mr. Tbaddeas Hyatt, of New York, having in August authorized me to draw oa him far 5$, I wrote to request of him to foe-ward that seat to Mrs. F wbicb be did not do. Deepalrlc j of receiving tie long promised re sniuascesr ezi fadlr j list tie situation of. ray LrTy ata ticxrs cf jci iz'.ease anxiety to t:-, Ct; - H give t. tla t.U ie had Hi 55) Ui. cs c:::waxd, al ca tie --d cf IOT.i- down tie Missouri to St. Louis. Oa reaciic the farm of young John Brown, in Ohio, I was received most kindly; but some days elapsed te-' fore be conld pfocue me tie little taoney re- quisite to carry me oa to New York. It is essential thai eft persons clearly eoaaprsi bend why the New England humanitarians pro- - mised and why they did not fulfil it discloses the lack of reliability among certain persona ' here, which onght to be understood and remem be red in Europe. Their promises were made when it was anticipated that force would be resorted to in Kansas, and they wanted to coax men to go there; but the pro-elevery party bav ing artfully spread the false report that Kansas would'eertainly and without further efTort be a free State, and the Northern speculators on the spot having dishonestly helped to circulate and re echo that false report, for the sake of encouraging bona fids settlers to crowd la and bey building lota rn tie towns at an increased value,' the New England humanitarians at the East swallowed the bait,' and conceived the notion, that farther 'disbursements might be avoided. Bat in cheating me they hare cheatedthemselves- Kansas is now ia greater peril thats1 ever. " - : e e . Thought I have discovered that I was wrong in my estimate of a certain portion of the New England humanitarians the lenders especial! I jet do believe that there is good among the rank and file of the abolitionists; if not, there can be little indeed in tbe whole white population; for among the supporters of slavery end those indifferent to the question, or even among the lukewarm, what can there be of good? But if I be again mistaken if every abolitionist la America even if every abolitionist ia the world were to turn rascal that would not alter my opinion as to the great principle of the right contained in abolitionism, nor would it check my efforts in the cause of Freedom. n. FoaBU. KB, rOKBES TO THS COTEKXOR OF TE&KOirT. Washington, D. C May 23, 1853. Ho. Ryxasd, Fletcher, Governor of Vermont,-Montpelier, Vt. Sib Without presuming to form any opioioa as to the truth of tie assertion made to me by Capt. John Brown last autumn, viz: That you promised to let him have whatever arms ie might want from the deposits of your Stale at a nominal price I think it proper at any rate to inform you that those arms would not be used for Kansas or for the stampedes, or for "the well matured plan" agreed cpon, bat for the Brown project, pure and simple, as explained in the accompanying letter dated May 14. As there are' many persons to whom I must show that letter I beg that it may be returned to me, or a oopy of it, which will answer the same purpose. . I beg that you will not erroneously suppose that I wish to entangle you with any claims which I have on the committees and other repn-diators. I have heard of no promise on yocr part except that for the arms referred to above and in that respect I caution you that a surprise may be sprung upon you, as one has been practiced upon me. I also transmit by this post the volume of extracts expressly republished for lie use of the Free State men of Kansas and the volunteers whose instruction I was seat to Taber to super-' intend, daring which necessary absence West my family in Paris, France, after having bees oblige to sell everything, was turned starving into the street, the pittance which the rt podia tars promised to dedicate to their maintenance not bavin? been sent to them. - H. Foasca, - -' dlnns 0f Clingy. fS-Keep home happy, for there yon will keep' men pure. t3? A woman who makes boms a reality indeed, works no trival work. KsJ The more wise a woman is, tie mora thoroughly woman she will be. True national life rests en borne, far there the men of a nation are formed. fSfA life of leisure and a life of laxlaees are two different things. '' - XSyCato says, "tie best way to keep gooi acts in memory is to refresh tiem with new" tJ Nothing prevents a person from being natural and easy, so much as an extreme aoxle ty to appear so. , 1ST What would our day be without its mor ning and evening twilight? A fierce andbur--ning eye without a Ed. t& Men forget that many a privation has-hidden joy, as the flower blooms under tie leaf; Shadow is sometimes shelter. - SO A year of pleasure passes like a fioatlng breeeee, but a moment c-f misfortune seems ai egeof pain. f-Look upon every day as the whole of lift? ; not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, tirongb baste,' to iprlcjfca 3 another section now lying before yon. - 1 S Worldly prosperity is a" mici gfeiier drain upon our energies than tie most set ere adversity; there is no spring, no elasticity; it Is UkV walking through life tfpoh a tarke carpet.'- 5 iSf the man who boasts of bii knoelede is usually ignorant, and wishes to blind tio eytJ of bis bearer. Merit and TiUratore are always discovered Id few instaaces cnaouced,' axre warded.'' '"' " " ' C-J When tie critical mozsest am res, yc 2 must act " for yoftrself no man caa give yo J ' cou'nsei A true man will elvsys find LUtlTi counsel la list Inspiration which agoodcas.J never fails to give Lla at tie instaniof trial." ' - tT Before tie fb year, bow many see it a. 7 sown which future years, and distant oaci,tc.; mature successively! Cow much foadaess, bow mncb generosity, what bottt cf olier virtaes; coerage, constancy patriotism, sprir Iztasf fathers' heart Lorn tie Cradle of hit cUli. r Landor. . - . - ; " - - , :CQ VThsi trees! T n nmner, coverti w'.'i ! leaves and blossoms, exhalicg perfane ai f , ed wlli merry birds that tier Oct cf titlr.-, dea cLotrt. are Conscience Vi.r".c- Tv--"'1 evea ciea they -ere shine ! epoa t ' .,. .. without love, any one of Is?' f . y tiat toee ia wlatei tirc."i w L! j ' ' ; C:tt-i tit itcrrj 1 '

i C , . 4".t -, 7 i 3 Z; 1 o VOLUME XXIIL MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1859. NUMBER 35. sW4w' ; . - if - Ji?5 lienor Detoocrtflc Qm$t lt UBI.tBCB aVBar TCSBWAT oaXIHQ, DY JL. IIARPCR. iQSce in T7oAdvAd't Block, TMrd Story TERMS T dollars pr annum, payabla in advance; $2,50 within fix months; $3.00 after the ex-jpiratloc of the year. Club f twenty, $1,50 each. iainai " Written for the Banner The Nun. ; bt "la dbsvise." One nesting year and then, The mystic towi will seal, Jfy future from this outer world, . My Tery life coneeaL One fleeting yenr and thon. The able veil will fall, In dark folds from iny puling brow, To 0otne m eoi&bre pall, Cut to my eart its ibade will be, , A refuge from the jflnre, Of all that's cold, vnkind or faUt, In this dark world of care. tn fleeting year and then ; My Father' heart will bleed, )hl Heaven help me! in tat kur, lly ioul will foel thy need. One fleeting year andlhen, Oh ! Mother, pardon tne ; Chide not my vote, fur this alone, The future hold for me. . Dear Brothers, Sisters, well 1 know, --There will-be sobs and tears, 'Within the tiexr old homestead So blet thro' passing years. One fleeting year itnd then. The lonely clois-ter's cell, Will b my home, and to the tourltt . My heart will breath fnrewell " " Think not, Mmti worlJ, f "seek iu shade O'er sorrows dark to brood, My weary spirit only aeks for jeuee and solitude. One fleeting year and then the prtit With all its hopes aud fears, Must from ' the lister's " spitit pass. Erased by prayers tears. Oh ! cherished friends, thro coming years, . My heart at liuies may swell. When to thy sihe, thy prayers aud tears, I breath u tuny fmeictU. For the 'It. Vernon Banner. A Heart Wail. BT MOLLIS A. I'lSKKRTOM. " I've wept till all my store Of tears is spent, and I can weep no more." I fain would weep! my aching heart, Swells high with anxious grief and fear; But when I claim kind Nature's boon, Stem pride forbids the starting tear. The chilliug blast of ad verse .fate,' Bio bleakly, o'er my storm-tostd soul ;-And Slander's poisoued dart is there, Iirctod by a I'it-nd't control. J cannot weep; the fount 5? cl'ised. Of Grief ' ywoet o!a o to the heart ; And never, from uiy burning eyes, " Vill gushing drops of sorrow siart. Tears are fur those who never knew, . The sidueuirg we'ght f-f care I feci. Deep are the wouids Life's battle gives ; . Aud slow the power of Tiuae to heal. Forever now from me has pnss'd, The time to quail at want and woe, : W here vet De tiny directs. In lty's path I'll Ermly go. No more shall Pleasure's phantom mock, Or Ease allure me to her bower ; " I'll brave their arts, as does the rock The torrent's fiercest, jnadest power. Oh! may I not when Life's dim sun, . Hns sunk benenth Ubiiviuti'ri en, . Best in a dreamless sleep at Wt, From cank'ring care Jorever tree : . ; If so. fast speed ye weary years, '- And haste to bring you r welciuecloie, "When I can lay niy aching head, In. Death's eteruai. soft repose. . JiLi.owaY, Nov. 26, lj9.. lictrks of $cn. Stephen Girard. Stephen Girard began l.-.i rttinarkable trading career with one object which he at cadUy kept in view ail his luriaf .lite thf ruaii..j moucj for the power it eoDfrrred. He as cofjteot at starting, with the small profits of. the retail -trader, wilrihg to labor in any capacity to njiike these .profits secure. He practised the most . risr-Id personnVecon-- omy; he resisted all the alhirementa of pleasure;! be extracted th) last fart hitig. due to h m; and 1 he paid the last farthing that be owed He took j e Very advantage which tb-4aw allowed him in resisting a claim; he used men just so far as they j accomplished his purpose; he paid his servants no'more than the market price; wbeu a faithful cashier died he exhibited the utmost indifference making no provision for his family, and uttering no sentiment of regret lor bis loss. He would higgle for a penny with a huckster in thestreeU; be would deny tbe watchman at tbe bank the customary Christmas present of a great coat. To add more to his singular and deficient character, he was deaf in one ear, could only speak fcroken English, never converged upon anything but business, wore the same old coat, cut in the French style, for five years together. An old rickerty chair remarkable for its age, and marked with the initials "S, G,n drawn by ajadtd horse, was used when he rode around the city. He had no sense of hospitality; no friend to share bis house or table. He l was deferential, in appearance, to rank land family. Violent and passionate. His theological opiuions were heterodox ia the extreme, and he loved to name his , splendid vessels after Voltaire and Bossean. He was ottttwj to the improvensent of hisidopted city and ottntry; vu a determined follower of ostentatious charity, msn ever applied to htm for Urge public grant in vain, whils the starving beggar was ia variably seat .fca bi He steadily arose every fnornlag before tb lark as j nnceftsiog labor was the dftUj worship of his life." -:- - - : : V- , : ., : : . Aarcn Unrr.-Sentinel,, correspondent of the Conner ftnd Enquirer, thus sketches ia outline tbe character cf Barf: . J - r -; i ". : , v; ;.;, . .-.".v . ' Net jet Is Aaron Burr lbs subject tot fiction. T7e are too Bear him. Ilea who saw his exact tsr era severe critics of ao ideal portrait J r:-ci!3 t esCsssaa to ce, ij is I :zTf, posiext clsea of ccr tralse-'zx elr, i irtj Ja irtt9 nlxca - JmS with him for leren yeara he vuinu without ft conscience, and laughing ftt tta profesMd existence in other men. When they talked of the restraints of principal, he scorned their professions, and believed its assumption a cloak for vil. Courageous to the death, he dared to go on whatever stood before him. Prodigal upon his own profligacy, mean to all other expenditure, winning the name and fame of ft great lawyer, while he did bat dexterously avail himself of (he labors of others, he-thrnst men aside without pausing to reflect upon the pain of the blow. He went through life, as a cold conquer or goes over the field of battle, his road over the wounded, if success seemed easiest won by such ft path. .' Burr was not of a Republic His acting in the drama of life would have been in the first cast of character, in those lauds and under those Goverments where be could have governor. Not for him was the cold, calm superiority which Washington in his dignity exercised. He would have found, in an Oriental coontrj, sure way to efface such an obstacle to power; in the days of the old French Monarchs, his would have been the smite that reflected the King's favor, and his the frown that apprised the courtier that he had fallen. Our plain, straight line ways were not the arena for him. Colonel Burr would have been the fiist man that Cromwell hung, the first man to whom Charles H. would liave opened, the door of the inner room. Burr belonged to the times when the question asked by the nobles (the people asked no questions) was who whispers, and the Kiiier speaks. pasing t)nrictij. THE GOSPEL. . The circulation of the Gospel is a stream of light put iu" motion by the Eternal God, which, is destined to go onward till all darkotga is swept awav. PRAYER. An old author says: 'Prayer is that rope in the be'lfri w pull it, and it rings the bell up in Hcaveis; and s it is. K-ep tht bell moving. Pull it well, and though the bell is ur so high thut tou cannot har it ritig, depend upon it, it cm be heard iu the tower of Heaven, and is ringing before the throne of God, who will send answers of peace according to your faith." ' PEACE. - Peace is better thau joy. Joy is an uneasy guest, and always on tiptoe to depart. It tires aud wears ns out, and yet keeps us ever fearing that the next moment will be gone. Peace is not so it comes more quietly, it stays more contentedly, and it never exhausts our strength, nor gives us one anxious thought. Therefore, let ue pray for peace. It is the gift of God promised to all His children; and if we have it in our hearts we shall not pine for joy, though its bright wings never touch U3 while we tarry in the world. TRUTH NEVER DLT3. Great principles are immortal. Emanating from the Divine mind, their existence is eternal. You may' entomb them under the superstition of ago; you may bury them, but they will rise again' Their supremacy must be recognised. Thtir empire must be eternal. Our fathers felt this. In-'th- prison, and at the stake, it ahsorb-ed tlcm. With the spirit of -Christian martyrdom they threw their erfat principles into the public mind. S.K-iety was titarllrd at their boldness and uovelty. The intelligetice aud piety of the ag for the season repudiattd them asd-s-tructive to all order aid morality. Still tbey worked. . - ;. ":- '- THE TWO LIVES. "Beautiful i old age - beautiful ia the slow-dropping, mellow sutumii of a, rich and glorious summer. In the old man; Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with the fruits of a well spent life; and, surrounded by his children's chil- i dren, she rocks hint aufily away to a grave. to which be is followed with blessings. "God forbid that we thould not call it beauti fu'; but not the most beautiful. . There is anoth. er life, bard, rough, and taoroey, trodden with, I bleediug' feet and aching b.o; the life of which h cross :s the symbol; a battle which no peace fjllows this side of the rrave. which thn orravt o -.7 w r. - - gazes to finish before the victory is won; and strange that it should be so, th is is the highest life of man. Look along the great names of history: there are none whose life has been other than this." BEAUTIFUL. Why is it that the rainbow and the cloud come over us with a beauty that is not of earth, and then pass away, and leave us to muse oq faded lov-Hie? Why is it that the stars that hold their nightly throne aro placed above the reach of our limited facultips. forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory? And why is u that the bright forms of human beauty presented W our view are then taken from ns, leaving the thousand stivams of affection to flow back in almighty torrents upon the human? We are born of a large. 4ftiaj than that of aarth. There is a land where the stars will be set oat before as like islands that slumber in the ocean, and where the beautiful being that pass before bs like n meteor will stay ia ear preseece fareret JVov THB lflSJ IS A JtTJSICLUf. V ; Extend a silken thread ia the crevice of a window and the wind finds it and sings over it, and foes p end dowa the scale upon it, and, like Paganini, performs oa a singls string. riae ftlseost "wveirthing oa earth to see if mere is masie U iu: It persaadea a tone out of tne greftt btu the tower wbea the sexton is sleep, U make. , meurafBl Jrj of the forest piaee, and h tries to see what sort of a whistle can be made of the bemUest ehionej ia tie world. , How it will pl,y Bpon a great tres tin erery leaf &rO wiUt tie aote ia it, and winds t ttsxi cf rsoracrlc aeeejepaaiaaEt, ' " X TTltl oCoij i tlat vita It girte a eea. cert with full choir of the waves of the sea, tad performs an anthem between the two worlds, and goes op, perhaps to the stars that lor music most and aang it the first. : ; Then how fondly it haunts old booses, moaning under the eaves, singing in the halls, opening old doors without fingers, and sighing a measure of some sad old song around the fire-less and descted hearth. UXIOX DEMONSTRATION IX BOSTON. SPEECH OF EDWAEB EVEEETT. Letter ft-om Ex-Presldent Pierce. The great Union meeting in Fanenil Hall, ia Boston, on Thursday, was the most imposing political demonstration ever witnessed in that city, and. as was the case here, was largely com posed of men representing all departments of industry. The opening address was delivered by the Ptesi dent, ex Governor Lincoln, and after the reading of a series of well expressed resolutions, the Hon. Edward Everett was introduced and delivered an address of remarkable force and eloquence. We have space only to extract his pictnre of the horrors of iusurrection, in connection with the recent mad foray. He said: Mr. Chairman, those who look upon the existing excitement at the South as factitious or extravagant, have, I fear, formed a very inadequate idea of the nature of such ao attempt as that which was made at Harper's Ferry was intended to be, and would have been, had it proved successful. Itis to want of reflection on this point i hat we must ascribe the fact that any civilized man, iu his right mind, and still mpre any man of intelligence and moral disernmenl in other respects, caa be found to approve and sympathise with it. I am sure, if such persons will brinir home to their mind3, in any dist'mct conception, the real nature of the undertaking, they would be themselves amazed. that they had ever given it their sympathy. It appears, from his own statements and those of his deluded associates, of bis biographer, of his wretched wife, that the unhappy man, who has just paid the forfeit of his life, had for years meditated a general insurrection in the Southern Slates; that he thought the time had now come to. effect it; that the slaves were reauy to rise, ana tne non-siavenoio.ng wn.tes to - join them;nd both united were ready to' form a new Commonwealth, of which the Constitution was organized, and the officers chosen. With this wild but thoroughly matured plan, he provides weapons for those on whosa rising he cal eultUed at Harper's Ferry; be seizes the national arsenal, where there was a supply of arms for a hundred thousand men, and be intended, if unable to maintain himself at once in open country, to retreat to the mountains, and from their fasten esses, harass, paralyse, and finally revolutionize the South. To talk of the pikes and rifles not being iu tended for offensive purposes is ei-m ply absurd. The first act almost of the party was to shoot down a free colored nan, whom they ere attempting to impress, and who fled from them. - One night as well say that the rifled ordnance of Louis Napoleon was intended only for self defence, to be used in case the Austrians should undertake to arrest his march. No. Sir; it was an at tempt to do otj a vast scale, what was done in St. Domingo in 1791, where the colored population was about equal to that of Virginia; and if any one would form a di&tiuct idea what such an operation is, Jet him see it-rot as a matter of vague : conpeptiona crud pr j"ct in the mind of a heated fanatic, but as be Khoyld in the sober pages of history, that rec" ords the revolt in that island; the midnight burnings, the wholesale massacres, the merciless tor ture, the ahom;ryaUons not to be named by Christian tips in the hearing of Christian earssome of which, ico unutterably atrocious for the Eng- j -lish lanung-e, areof necessity veiled in the; ob- j scuTity of tbe Latin tongue. Allow me to read you a few sentences from the historian of these events: '---rv. "In the town itself, the general belief for some time was,. that the revolt was by no means an extensive one, but a sudden and partial insurrection only. The largest sugar plantation on the plain wasuhat of Moris. Gallifet, situated about eight miles from the town, the negroes belonging to which bad always been treated with such kindness and liberality, and possessed so many advantages, that it become a proverbial expression among the lower white people, in speaking of any man s good fortune, to say, tl est heureitx comvie ; hasty or narrow view of the causes which have un negre de Gallifet (be is as hapyy as one of produced the dangers we w,nld meet, and jf pos-M. Gallifri's negroes.) M. Odelac, an attorney, f, Me avert. It is not the recent invasion of Vir or ajent, for this planUtion. was a member of i ginia which should awaken our atronirest aDnre- the General Assembly, and being fully persuaded that the negroes belonging to it would remain firm in their obedience, determined to repair thither to encourage tbem in opposing the insurgents; tn which end he desired the assistance of a few soldier from the town guard, which was granted bi m We proceeded accordingly, but on approaching the estate, to bis surprise, be found all the negroes in arms on the side of the rebels, and, horrid to telL their standard teas the body of a vyhite infant tchick they lad recently impah ed on a stake! Mr. Odeluc had advanced too far to retreat undiscovered, and both he and a friend who bad accompanied Lira with most of tbe soldiers, were killed without mercy. Two or three only of tbe patrol escaped by flight, and conveyed tbe dreadful tidings to tbe inbemtenit of the town. - - .r:.. , , Bj this time, all or most of the Ybtte parsons who bad been found on the asveral plantations being masacred or forced to seek their safety in flight, tbe rufSans exchanged the sword for the torch. Tbe buildings and cane-fields were everywhere set on fire; and the J conflagrations, which were visible front the town, in a thousand diSTer eat quarters, famiihed a prospect more shocking a&d refectlaasmcre dismal, tbaa &&cj caa p sisl ci tie powers aa' icsetilW? :if--.-y-Caciy Cr, as a r;a.:i.-.r cf L-i."jU t: rTj ificrrcssa. Vsw let tl Ul : ' state of things ic the Southern States,o-members as the are with na in the rreat Republican Confederacy. Let us consider over what sort of population it is, that some persons ftmong ns think it only right and commendable, bat in the highest degree heroic, saint like, god -like, to ez tend the awful calamity, which turned St. Domingo into ft heap of bloody ashee in 1791. There are between three and fonr millions of the colored race scattered through the Southern and Southwestern Stales, in small group, i cities, towns, villages, and in larger bodies on isolated plantations; in the house, the factory, anxl the field; mingled together with the dominent race in the various pursuits of life; the latter amounting in the aggregate to eightor nine millions, if I right ly recollect the numbers. Upon this community, thus composed, it was the design of Brown to let loose the hell-hod nds of a servile insnrrection, and to bring on a straggle wVich for magnitode, atrocity and horror would have stood alone in the history of the world. And these eight or nine millions, against whom this frightful war was levied are our fellow-citizens, entitled with us to the protection of that compact of Government which recognizes their relation to the colored race a compact which every sworn officer of the Union or of the States is "bound by his oath to support! Among them, sir, is a fair proportion of men and women of education and culture of moral and religious lives aud characters virtuous fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, persons who would adorn aay station of society in any country men who read the same Bibir that we do, and in the name of the same Master kneel at the throne of the same God forming a clss of men from which have gone forth some of the greatest and purest characters which adorn our history Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Marshall. These are the men, the women, for whos6 bosoms pikps and rifles are manufactured in New England, to be placed in the hands of an ignorant subject race, .supposed, most wrongfully, as recent events have shown, to be waiting only for an opfJortanity to use them! Sir, I have on three or fouivdifferent occasions in early life, and more, .reofly, visited all the Southvn, and South westerntates, with the exception of Arkansas aud Alabama. I have enjoyed tbe hospitality of the tity and the country; I Lave bad the privilege before crowded and favoring audiences, to hold op the character of the Father of his Country, and to in calculate the i blessings of the Union, in th game precise terms in which r have done u hereathome. and in the other por.i0ns of the land. I have been admit- ted to the confidence of the domestic circle, and I have seen there toucbi ng 'manifestations of the kindest feelings by which that circle, in all its members, high and low, matter and servant, can be hound together; and when I contemplate the horrors tui wuuiq Have ensued ad the tragedy on which the curtain rose at Harper's Ferry .been acted out through all its scenes of fire aud sword, of lust and murder, of rapine and desolation, to the final catastrophe, I am filled with emotions to which no words can do justice. There could of course he but one result, and that well deserving the thoughtful meditation of those, if any such there be, who think that the welfare of the colored race could by any possibility be promoted by the success of such a movement, and who are willing to purchase that result by so costly a sacrifice. The colored population! of St, Domingo amounted to but little short of a half a mil Hon, while the whites amounted to only 30,000. The white population of the Southern States a-lone, in the aggregate, outnumbers the colored racen the ratio of seven to one, and if (which heaven avert) tbey should be brought into con flict, it would end only in the extermination of the latter after senes of woe for which language is too faint; and for which ths liveliest fancy has no adequate images or horror. " Hon. Caleb Cusbing followed in an able and patriotic address, severely reprobating the false teaching which led first to the recent violation of the soil of a sister State, and secondly to tbe political sympathy with which it is sought to crown the felon. Among the letters read was one from Ex-Presu dent Pierce, dated at Concord, from which we make the subjoined truthful and forcible extracts: ; Yon are right in assuming that this is no time for hesitancy ; eo time f.r donbtiDg, halting, half-way professions, or indeed, for mere professions cf any kind. It is a time for resolute purpose, to be followed by decisive, consistent action. . ;, ; ' ' m ; '" -. --- -- Let us act calmly and deliberately, without passion and without acrimony. Let us take no hension. but the teachings, still vehemently ps-r- Risted in, from which it sprung; with, the inevitable necessity which evolves the tfft-ct from tie cause.;' So, again, it is to b remembered that those who boldly approve and applaud the acta of trea son and murder perpetrated within the limits of Virginia, are not the most dangerous enemies of the Constitution and the Union. Subtle, crafty men, who, passing by duties and obligations, habitually appeal to sectional prejudices and pas sions, by denouncing the Institutions and people of tbe Sooth, and thus inflame the Northern mind to the -pitch of .resistance to the clear pro visions of the fundamental law who, ander plansible -pretexts, addressed to those prejudices and passions, pesa local laws designed to evade Constitutional obligations, are real!; and truly, whether they believe it or not, tbe mea who are berrying as epoe swift destreetioa. j Tour reprobation ojttis r.LTsal and political teachings wbicb Inspire tiis line of condnct wd, I am sure, be pronounced la tones so earnest that no eaaa eaa tntst;, a tieV Import. Tee will abow, on jour p- r ; !I-ess to give to fellow "citizens of ptber L a t zch just legislation by CosgTess as ai jrzrlZ f tie pesitiaect, net oalj ct m- h-izlza, Izt tzx tie t jpcA cf . . ZLZzzs, tz.Z tli a Lit rex zzsjtZ. . .IV :a trcrs, csscUrrrr enactments, each State against violence from any other. I shall hope that jaer meeting wi3 awaken a spirit wbicb will lead ; Massachasetts and Virginia to grasp again reciprocally the band of affectionate sympathy and support of love, honor as thej did it 1776,' when, as the elder and more! powerful of the colonies, they made op the issue of blood against the power of an unjust Parliament. Why should it not be so? Is there any cause of alienation, on our part, which bid not exist at the formation of the Gov. ernment ? When have the people of the South invaded oar territory, slain our people, or conveyed away our property ? Why should not the authority of New Hampshire honor and cherish the authority of Uisshuippi? Are tbey not each sovereign, but yet are they hot bound up together in the endearing bond of a common country? To establish upon a firm footing these relations between all the States, what is required but cordial, loyal, manly recognition and enforcement, in spirit and in act, of all the requirements of the compact entered into by the fathers who have passed to their reward?; Caa it be that there is, among any large portion of our people, North or South, a settled purpose to accept the benefits, but deny the hardens of the Constitution? Have all sentiments of patriotism and honor perished together. If that time has come or you discern its near approach, then, indeed, should you, who desire to Jive under this Constitution, expounded by the angsst tribunal into whose charge our fathers gave its exposition, raise the voice of warning, and save, if it be impossible the voice of woe. But it has not come, and it is still in your power to say it shall not. There is no inevitable, irresistible impulse hurrying it forward. : 1 deny, in the name of all that is most sacred and precious in our inheritance, that there is an element of " irrepressible conflict" between the Southern and Northern members of this Con. fedration. The doctrine is as unsound and untrue as it . is fearful. It is contradicted by the unbroken experience of the first fifty years of our History. It would nave been tbe price of tbe lost of reputation , for life, to have uttered it while the men who fought tbe battles of the Revolution, and framed the Constitution, were yet alive. No t It has not come, and with the blessing of God, upon the exertions of good and patriotic men, it will never be nearer. I have faith in tbe power of yoar efforts, my fellow-citize' s faith that your example, in this relation, will be followed, and your action imitated, not only in other parts of Massachusetts, but by citizens of other States, who appreciate the blessings which the Constitution has conferred upon them, and who. come what may, intend, on their native soil. andwith their children around them, to claim its protection and uphold its-authority. 1 have faith, above all. that the continued favor of the God of our fathers, who watched over our feeble political beginnings, who preserved us through the innumerable perils of the struggle Tor nationality, will yet make the warmth of man subservient to the peace and durability of this. Union. HELPER AND HI S F RIEND S THEI R REVOLUTIONARY PLATFORU. (From the Washington Constitution. Mr. Helper, alias Heifer, a native of North Carolina, who, some years ago, left his State for his States' good, published a book i a which he expressed the following sen timents; 'Xo man can be a true patriot williovt first becoming an abolitionist." ' Henceforth, sirs, We are demandants, not suppliants. We demand , our rights nothing more, nothi ng less. Itis for you to decide whether vt are fo have justice peaceably or by no, lkxce; for, whatever consequences may foUow-tre are determined to have it one way or t7u oik-er." . ' ; r .:- -- - " The diabolical institution (slavery) subsists on its own flesh. At one time children are sold to procure food for the parents ; at another, parents are sold to procure food for the children. Within its pestilential atmosphere nothing succeeds ; progress and prosperity are unknown ; inanition and slothfulness ensue ; everything becomes dull and unprofitable; wretchedness and desolation stand or lie in bold relief throughout the land ; an aspecfof most melancholy inactivity and dilapidation broods over every , city and town ; ignorance and prejudice sit enthroned Tver the minds of the people ; usurping despots wield the sceptre of power; everywhere, and in everything, between Delaware Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, are the multitudinous evils of slavery apparent," - ": ; Inscribed on the banner which we herewith unfurl to the world, with the full and fixed deter mination to stand by it or die by it, unless one of more virtuous efficacy shall. be presented, are the mottoes which, in substance, embody tbe princip!es,s we conceive, that should govern us in our patriotic wat fare against the moat subtle and insidious foe that ever menanced the inalienable rights and liberties and dearest interests of America" 1. Thorough . organization and independent political action on the part of thenon-slave-holding wbites of tbe Sooth. . 2. IaelFgibiliiy of pro slavery slaveholders ; never another vote to any one who ad vocates the retention and perpetuation of human slavery. 3. No co-operation with pro-slavery politi cians; bo fellowship with them in religion; no aSliatioa with them ia society. 4. No- patronage to pro-slavery merchants ; no guesUhip in slave-waiting hotels ; ao fees to pro-slavery lawyers; no employment of pro-slavery physicians ; no audience to pro-slavery persona. ' :- . ...' -.. 5. No more hiring of slaves by nontlave boldera. " ' " . - C Abrupt diseootinuanoe of snbscriptioa to pro-slavery newspapers." - This book containiBg the above extracts, re-ctjmmending treason and insurrection, tbe abolition by violence of aa institution wbicb fifteen sovereign States of tbe Unioa approve and maintain, ctder tie express sanction and guarantees of the -.Constitution' "and tie exconncalcstloa of all who opioid tiat jnsjltclioa and ilsix exclusion from soeiaL rslliocs, and irtlsext fJ-Iiwii:;, -lu Cyt! tzl t-'tl2SSj t- drrssd, acj aii3 J tiossanl ec;!ss cf It tl.-. c.lzllj Ci '..Inlsief tit Uicrrr JloMcal. party, including sixty eight members of Congress, whose names we append i . , f. .. ScHtmxa Coltxx, Axaox Btraxixaaxx, Owen Lovejoy, Amos P. Granger,-Edwin B. Morgan,-Qavvibx A. Geow, Joshua R. Gid dings, Edward Wade," Calvin CChaSee, WmuH. Celsey, Wm. A. Howard, Henry Waldoa, JOHN SHERMAN, George W. Goocb, Henry L. Dawes, Justin S. Morrill, L Waahbume, Jrn J. A. Bingham, " Wm. Kellogg, E. R. Washburn, Samuel G. Andrews, Abraham B. Olin, Sidney Dean, : Nathl B,Darfee, Emory B. Pottle, DeWittC. Leech, John F. Potter, T. Davis, Mass-, J. F. Farns worth, C. L. Unapp, R. E. Featon, Philemon Bliss, ' ILtsox W, TxrrAX, r Charles Case, . T. Davie, Iowa, James Pike, Homer E. Royce, Isaac D. Clawson, A. S. Murray, Rob'tB. Hall, Val. B. Horton, . David Kilgore, Wm. Stewart, Samuel R. Curtis, John M. Wood, John M. Parker, Stephen C. Foster, Jas. Bofflaton, O. B. Mattison, Richard MoU, Geo. R. Robbins, E. f. Walton, James Wilson, S. A. Purviance, F. E. Spinner, . S. M. Burroughs. These men " cordially endorse" Helper's recommendations of treason, insurrection, and overthrow of the Constitution and .the Union, and now invite representatives of Southern constituencies to unite with them in political action, and aid in elevating to place and power. Can Southern men sustain and support such men and such measures ? We do not, we cannot, be lieve it ZIore of the Forbes Correspondence. New Yorx, Jan. 30, 1858. To the Committee of the British and Fortign Anti-Slavery Society, London: Gektlcscen Though the wrong complained of was not committed by our society, and although the subject be not, according to article 3, of a strictly "pacific character," nevertheless, as the circumstances detailed affect the interests of the anti-slavery cause, and as an English family has been barbarously and ; unjustly trea ted, I beg of you to pay attention to the follow ing facts: About the 25th of March last (1857) Capt John Brown, of Kansas, (known as Ossawato- mie Brown, from a fight between his men and the border ruffians near that village.applied to me to go to Iowa (or elsewhere) for a year, lo organize and instruct the military science some hundred more or less volunteers to be selec ted from the most reliable of the free State men who are very ignorant of military matters, of that after their being introduced they might , in Case of any emergency, be able to resist ago gression, and might be capable of directing oth ers in the proper ways of defending themselves. Capt. B. is not a military man by profession, but is a volunteer leader of irregulars an earnest and zealous man who had seen and felt what was needed in Kansas. He explained to me that the project, met with the approval and would receive the co-operation of the National Committee, tie Massachusetts State Committee acd other free State organizations, besides many eminent public officers and wealthy and influen tial citizens, by whom the amount of funds re quisite to carry out the plan would be placed in his hands. Capt. B. was on that occasion introduced to me by a letter which he brought from your cor respondent, Mr. Leavett. The invitation took me somewhat by surprise. I answered that the project appeared to be (so far as it went) a very proper proceeding, but that I did not feet much inclined to go among persons whose aspirations were limited to "Kansas for free white people," (the famous Topeka liberal constitution excludes from the .Territory all colored persons, free or slave;) but having been assured that the men in question bad more enlarged ideas, I then considered that I ought to go, provided the financial part of the question conld be so arranged as to enable me to send to my family ia Europe a regular and sufficient remittance of funds. During the month of May last I met Capt. B. by appointment, at Peterboro', New York State, and learning from him that be could not be ia Iowa so early as he had anticipated, I took advantage of the extra time to print a small volume of 'extracts" from my "Volunteer's Man-uel." " : Having reached Teber, i Iowa (the place designated as the most suitable for the proposed instruction,) on the second dsy after Capt. B. arrived there, I received from him sixty dollars for my traveling expenses (which sixty I seat home,) but be could give me no more. It is hardly necessary to. say that as there were no funds, there were no pupils et Taber, except Captain B., and bis son Owen. I did nc however, limit myself merely to impart military instruction, I wrote tracts (a specimen is enclosed) and did other things, and was ready to do an jibing which could be of use. Losing si length both confidence and patience, I wrote to Mr. Gerrit Smith (the end of August I believe,) requesting him to apply to the proper quarter and insist that something be speedily sent to lira. Forbes and tbe fire children ia Paris. Mr. Smitn forwarded to Mr. Sanborn, of Concord, my letter, and be (Mr. Smith)' enclosed a draft of bis own for $25) urging upon the Bostonians to add more to it and send it on directly. But after sometime If r. Sanborn returned the draft, sayiag, "Hard tiajea." Capt B. wrote a note to request Mr. Smit to adrance i2 on bis own (Capt. B,'s) aesoaat but Mr. 8. kaadly sent that earn frees bimael& - Mr. Tbaddeas Hyatt, of New York, having in August authorized me to draw oa him far 5$, I wrote to request of him to foe-ward that seat to Mrs. F wbicb be did not do. Deepalrlc j of receiving tie long promised re sniuascesr ezi fadlr j list tie situation of. ray LrTy ata ticxrs cf jci iz'.ease anxiety to t:-, Ct; - H give t. tla t.U ie had Hi 55) Ui. cs c:::waxd, al ca tie --d cf IOT.i- down tie Missouri to St. Louis. Oa reaciic the farm of young John Brown, in Ohio, I was received most kindly; but some days elapsed te-' fore be conld pfocue me tie little taoney re- quisite to carry me oa to New York. It is essential thai eft persons clearly eoaaprsi bend why the New England humanitarians pro- - mised and why they did not fulfil it discloses the lack of reliability among certain persona ' here, which onght to be understood and remem be red in Europe. Their promises were made when it was anticipated that force would be resorted to in Kansas, and they wanted to coax men to go there; but the pro-elevery party bav ing artfully spread the false report that Kansas would'eertainly and without further efTort be a free State, and the Northern speculators on the spot having dishonestly helped to circulate and re echo that false report, for the sake of encouraging bona fids settlers to crowd la and bey building lota rn tie towns at an increased value,' the New England humanitarians at the East swallowed the bait,' and conceived the notion, that farther 'disbursements might be avoided. Bat in cheating me they hare cheatedthemselves- Kansas is now ia greater peril thats1 ever. " - : e e . Thought I have discovered that I was wrong in my estimate of a certain portion of the New England humanitarians the lenders especial! I jet do believe that there is good among the rank and file of the abolitionists; if not, there can be little indeed in tbe whole white population; for among the supporters of slavery end those indifferent to the question, or even among the lukewarm, what can there be of good? But if I be again mistaken if every abolitionist la America even if every abolitionist ia the world were to turn rascal that would not alter my opinion as to the great principle of the right contained in abolitionism, nor would it check my efforts in the cause of Freedom. n. FoaBU. KB, rOKBES TO THS COTEKXOR OF TE&KOirT. Washington, D. C May 23, 1853. Ho. Ryxasd, Fletcher, Governor of Vermont,-Montpelier, Vt. Sib Without presuming to form any opioioa as to the truth of tie assertion made to me by Capt. John Brown last autumn, viz: That you promised to let him have whatever arms ie might want from the deposits of your Stale at a nominal price I think it proper at any rate to inform you that those arms would not be used for Kansas or for the stampedes, or for "the well matured plan" agreed cpon, bat for the Brown project, pure and simple, as explained in the accompanying letter dated May 14. As there are' many persons to whom I must show that letter I beg that it may be returned to me, or a oopy of it, which will answer the same purpose. . I beg that you will not erroneously suppose that I wish to entangle you with any claims which I have on the committees and other repn-diators. I have heard of no promise on yocr part except that for the arms referred to above and in that respect I caution you that a surprise may be sprung upon you, as one has been practiced upon me. I also transmit by this post the volume of extracts expressly republished for lie use of the Free State men of Kansas and the volunteers whose instruction I was seat to Taber to super-' intend, daring which necessary absence West my family in Paris, France, after having bees oblige to sell everything, was turned starving into the street, the pittance which the rt podia tars promised to dedicate to their maintenance not bavin? been sent to them. - H. Foasca, - -' dlnns 0f Clingy. fS-Keep home happy, for there yon will keep' men pure. t3? A woman who makes boms a reality indeed, works no trival work. KsJ The more wise a woman is, tie mora thoroughly woman she will be. True national life rests en borne, far there the men of a nation are formed. fSfA life of leisure and a life of laxlaees are two different things. '' - XSyCato says, "tie best way to keep gooi acts in memory is to refresh tiem with new" tJ Nothing prevents a person from being natural and easy, so much as an extreme aoxle ty to appear so. , 1ST What would our day be without its mor ning and evening twilight? A fierce andbur--ning eye without a Ed. t& Men forget that many a privation has-hidden joy, as the flower blooms under tie leaf; Shadow is sometimes shelter. - SO A year of pleasure passes like a fioatlng breeeee, but a moment c-f misfortune seems ai egeof pain. f-Look upon every day as the whole of lift? ; not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, tirongb baste,' to iprlcjfca 3 another section now lying before yon. - 1 S Worldly prosperity is a" mici gfeiier drain upon our energies than tie most set ere adversity; there is no spring, no elasticity; it Is UkV walking through life tfpoh a tarke carpet.'- 5 iSf the man who boasts of bii knoelede is usually ignorant, and wishes to blind tio eytJ of bis bearer. Merit and TiUratore are always discovered Id few instaaces cnaouced,' axre warded.'' '"' " " ' C-J When tie critical mozsest am res, yc 2 must act " for yoftrself no man caa give yo J ' cou'nsei A true man will elvsys find LUtlTi counsel la list Inspiration which agoodcas.J never fails to give Lla at tie instaniof trial." ' - tT Before tie fb year, bow many see it a. 7 sown which future years, and distant oaci,tc.; mature successively! Cow much foadaess, bow mncb generosity, what bottt cf olier virtaes; coerage, constancy patriotism, sprir Iztasf fathers' heart Lorn tie Cradle of hit cUli. r Landor. . - . - ; " - - , :CQ VThsi trees! T n nmner, coverti w'.'i ! leaves and blossoms, exhalicg perfane ai f , ed wlli merry birds that tier Oct cf titlr.-, dea cLotrt. are Conscience Vi.r".c- Tv--"'1 evea ciea they -ere shine ! epoa t ' .,. .. without love, any one of Is?' f . y tiat toee ia wlatei tirc."i w L! j ' ' ; C:tt-i tit itcrrj 1 '